Love him or hate him, but Matt Drudge---the guy with the old newspaper fedora and his "Drudge Report" site---was seen by 11 billion people in 2012, according to a chart posted on his famous site today.
Drudge's site was seen 11,103,636,815 times in 2012, which was the highest in its 18-year history. Last year he finished at 10,096,405,399.
In 2005 he was at 2 billion page views:
LOSE THE FEDORA
The Drudge Report is essentially a news aggregate, a collection point for news gleaned from a variety of sources for the benefit of would-be viewers. Little, if any, original content is generated by this site. So lose the fedora, Matt – you haven’t earned it like the real reporters of the 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s did.
WEB NEWS EDITOR
He isn’t a reporter, but maybe the best web news editor. He picks the stuff, SEO networking it the right way and gets hits some of us, including me, dream about.
HERPES
Herpes is on the rise, too. Must mean everybody wants it as well. Sheesh…